“Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were.”

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American writer 1968

Mark Batterson (1969) American pastor and writer

Source: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars

“I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.”

Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director

In an interview in Film Comment, May/June 1990
Interviews

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”

Les Brown (1945) American politician

“❝Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.❞”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it”

Flannery O’Connor book Wise Blood

Source: Wise Blood

“Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to…”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“I'm going down
Follow if you want
I won't just hang around
Like you'll show me where to go
I'm already out
Of foolproof ideas
So don't ask me how
To get started
It's all uncharted”

Sara Bareilles (1979) American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist

"Uncharted"
Lyrics, Kaleidoscope Heart (2009)

“… where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?”

China Miéville book Un Lun Dun

Source: Un Lun Dun

“Have a goal, a destination and a clear map. If you don't know where you are going any road will take you there”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 58

“Where you have the will you have the skill; study, search, practice application; healthy irreverence; look for the kink in the thing, be curious.”

Verghese Kurien (1921–2012) Indian founder of dairy-cooperative Amul

His views on his multi-skills in p. 168.
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